AI Is Now a Weapon: Supply-Chain Attacks, Rogue Agents and the EU AI Act Crackdown
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AI is now both weapon and target. New research shows attackers can exploit AI systems within 48 hours of a vulnerability going public, and a North Korea-linked group is behind multiple open source supply-chain attacks, according to Amazon. The AI Proving Grounds consortium is stress-testing whether autonomous security agents are actually ready to act on their own — and when they go wrong, it’s usually the control plane, not the model, that’s rogue. Meanwhile, the EU has begun enforcing its AI Act, expanding oversight of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Mike Vizard hosts Sid Nag (Tekonyx), Kate Scarcella (Continuous Delivery Foundation), and Chris Blask (QuietWire) to unpack all three stories.
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